I've got more pages going 950 as of today. And the results above me are absolutely way out of whack, with #1-5 being events from 2003-2005. On the other hand, I'm getting more and more pages OUT of supplemental every day. Getting weirder all the time.

Same here, another big drop on one of our pr7 sites on the 29th, about 40% traffic drop. We buy no text links so I dont think it is due to that. A rapid increase in supps for this site coincided at the same time so it most likely has to do with this.

I don't rely on G anymore, the only traffic that is stable is Y & MSN, if I get anything from G its a bonus, admittedly a massive one but I no longer check the serps as it will most likely be gone next time I check

My whole site seems to drop in and out of the main SERPS every week, it started in March where the whole month was a washout (not quite 950 terriorty but very poor ranking). April was back in for 3 weeks then dropped for 2 weeks now I alternate in and out every week!

This is madness something must be broken, either my site should or should not be ranking well but not changing dramatically every single week!

Is anyone else seeing this and how are we meant to let google know given there are so few feedback channels?

yes this is exactly our experience although the timeline is different (between December and now). One long blast in the wilderness, then back for a few weeks, then out, now at least one day per week usually between Thursday and Sunday.

We havent done much to our site except change the internal link structure a bit (changed from linked images to text links)

Same here, NutMeg. My 950'd pages came back on June 1st. Like you said, I hope it sticks. Did your pages come back a couple of weeks ago, and return to the end of the results after three or four days? Are others seeing their 950'd pages return to previous positions?

walkman, ya, it's still a mess. The biggest problems seem to be: - irrelavant geo listings -- eveything from local listings to far-flung international listings crowding their way into what were previously mainly clean SERP's, - missing middle-tier high quality sites that should be included (and had been), and, - very odd results for tons of core searches.

It continues to look like one of those old-fashioned updates where they tossed it out there before it was soup and so it continues to boil away. So far though, still way too uncooked to stomach.

It's long been the case that oddball and inappropriate geo sites sometimes temporarily find their way into the SERP's, but what bothers me more is the loss of some high quality middle-tier sites. It smacks of the same issue I've seen since pre-Big Daddy where high quality small sites become collateral damage. If that problem is now creeping up the food chain, it would be take a bad situation and make it noticeably worse.

Around the time of Big Daddy, for the first time since Google's inception, I started hearing a significant number of "man on the street" observations about declining quality of G SERP's. Not enough to change much, buut noticeable.

The sheer force of G's distribution and mindshare is enough to allow them to hang onto -- if not grow -- share of searches even in spite of a weakening product. But as with all things, reality does eventually catch up with perception. If this is an expansion of the collateral damage problem, and if this sort of result set sticks, the perception lost quality might creep a bit further into the mass consciousness.

>I started hearing a significant number of "man on the street" observations about declining quality of G SERP's.

and the nice thing is even the media now are saying about using other SE's, I heard a guy on the radio today comment about using Y to find some cheap tickets - lets hope this is the decline on the dominance that G has over webmasters and a more fairer sharing of traffic so its not a case of succeed on G or fail

In some sectors, much of the same junk that's risen to the top at Yahoo has risen to the top at Google. The inbounds are blended with legitimate stuff to such an extent that you might wonder how any engine or any spam team can sort it out.

My concern is how much more collateral damage there's going to be when Google cleans this up, if they can. One thought I've had is that Google may be showing more of this than usual to elicit spam reports from competitors. I hope these results are not the best they can do.